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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, February 16, 1945

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Back Home what goes on in the Jinx recalls her far East gallivanting miss dressed in a White dress of mexican Wool with Jinx printed All Over it in bubbled Over like a girl just Back from her first what she was Back from was no but a Uso tour of the India Burma and China Heaters of War with Pat Briens entertainment this gang played some 84 performances exclusive of hos Pital shows for Jinx and the gang were supposed to give Only 54 performances on the the rest were put on Jinx once you get going out there and see the you want to Stop and do a show for from the time we got up to the time we were ready to fall into it was like a continuous opening some places i think the soldiers must have come out of the the reception you got everywhere was enough to turn your looking at the Way the men were living and the roughness of it All and How far they were from Home and How they were staying there when you were going your head didst you Felt like cheering them instead of being it was All new to Jinx and close to her because she has two Brothers in the floor of her hotel room was strewn with coolie silk gadgets her mind was strewn with i dont know what was most most there was a b29 base where we had never has the loosely knit lend lease relation ship Between Broadway and Hollywood operated More efficiently than at names of 10 movie performers Grace Broadway theater marquees and More Are expected before the cur rent season most recent arrival from Cine Maland was Carole Landis As the Star of a lady says John drama critic for the new York daily for didst think so much of her vehicle but described her As breathtaking As Ever in after a two year stand in Good night a farce about und raped Femme which stars film comedian skeets was finally inspected by the new York those gentlemen identified it As a remake of an ancient named ladies night in a turkish and in spite of an unmerciful panning from the a Good run was predicted for Fredric March and Margo Are featured and probably will be for a Long time in a Bell for Martha Scott is getting top Billing in the soldiers Mary Martin is still hold ing Forth in one touch of and Elizabeth Bergner is doing the heavy emoting in the two which began a Road tour after a Long new York Florence Rice has been Pinch hitting for Betty Field in the voice of the Betty was taken ill shortly after re placing Margaret Sullavan when the original Star of the Van play returned to at least two of the former Hollywood ites in new Carroll in the late George Apley and Frank Fay in added to their reputations by top performances in their current in is in a very favourable position right now on both Broadway and in for the play is scheduled for along run and Mary the Denver news paper mans wife who wrote the is refusing maybe the most intense audience of the entire they left when the show was half Over to bomb the i sat in with the men at the very Tail end of the briefing for that when one of them touched my it was As if hed hugged was that everything you saw was new and i was always taking know the but i was so Busy they didst have time to make me the men were wonderful to talk to and easy to talk and we tried to talk to everyone that wanted to talk or take a snapshot or play we usually played a stiff game of pingpong in Day rooms the relax and now Ive got to get used to sleeping without a net i want to go out Over seas As soon As i the nets we used Over by the were for keeping rats once us girls had a huge rat under one of our Beds in it just sat under the bed going chomp like bugs we squealed at first but we got used to and it was still chomping when we fell everything reminds me of something i still cant talk straight about she  because she was still filled with the same excitement that carried her through her 84 same excitement that spar kled out of her As she stepped from the plane be of the biggest pieces of news on Broadway in the current season has been the to stardom of Hilda starting in a Harlem experimental theater she moved Down to the main Stem to be the big attraction of the hit play Anna Hildas husband William is a sergeant in an antiaircraft to consider any Hollywood offer that does not include Frank in the role of the dips maniac who pals around with an imaginary Rabbit 6 feet 1 inches no two performers in the entertainment world have a More promising future than Bing Crosby and Barry who won most of the top file re awards for 1944 by their work in going my Crosby is at work on another role As a priest in the Bells of under the direction of Leo director of the 1944 prizewinning most sought after character actor in the film will have one of the principal roles in buddy de Sylvas Stork the former Abbey player will portray a crusty old millionaire who frequents the Stork club and figures importantly in the life of Betty the feminine another actor very much in particularly by companies planning is Danny Sam Goldwyn recently purchased the secret life of Walter one of James thur Bers Best Short with the idea of starring Danny As the Meek Little Man vrho escapes his wife domination by living in a dream those of you who have Long admired Jane Kussell in pinups will soon get a Chance to judge what kind of an actress United artists when Jinx returned to that brought her Over the dressed in a red i shorts and red and made Joseph Stilwell remark now theres a real tire woman at Hine yank staff writer have obtained exhibition rights to the Only Pic Ture Jane has produced by Howard tremendous publicity catapulted la Russell to Star status without the Public Over seeing her in anything More than cheese the outlaw was held up by the Hays office and has had Only a limited there is no likelihood that Johnny Weiss Muller will get his hair Cut for at least two More the former olympic swimmer has signed to play Tarzan for at least that much Fred who gave up his radio program on doctors just cant seem to get off the in Fred has guested on information please and Harold Lloyds comedy and with Rudy Jack Milton Berle and Earl since returning from Holly Wood where he made its in the his first picture in five i guess i just cant say no to Fred during 1944 the army and Navy hit kit featured 35 of the 38 numbers on the hit feature of the february Issue is another hit Parade porters dont Fence me a song which is sweeping the other numbers included Are i dream of when Day is Lazy i cried for in making too that an Irish Lullaby and into each life some rain must change of address Scriber and have changed your use this Coupon together with the mailing address on your latest yank to notify us of the mail it to the army 205 East 42d new York and yank Wil follow you to any part of the full name and rank old military address order new military address allow 21 Days for change of address to become effective l m u  
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